Be careful: Don't eat tofu like this
Industrial gypsum mixed with tofu, bean sprouts soaked with chemicals, sick pork products flow to the market...... A series of food safety problems in Taiwan have caused people to wonder what to eat.
New Taipei City prosecutors recently discovered that Yongchang Chemical Company is suspected of selling industrial gypsum as edible grade gypsum, and the manufacturing of the famous "Dahan tofu" Chuanwu Food Company, manufacturing "Jiangji beancurd" New Penglai Food Company, over the years have been purchased from Yongchang. Taoyuan County health Bureau investigation found that Yongchang Chemical industrial gypsum mixed with food grade gypsum, also into Taoyuan Changsheng Machinery Company.
In response to the incident, Kawamu company said, "Big Han tofu" has been urgently changed formula, and removed from the shelves for replacement. At the same time, Xinpeng Food said Jiangji Beancurd had passed it at lance Lance and it was sent for testing. The result would be ready soon next week.
Taichung City recently seized, CAI family name Zusun 3 generation of the operation of bean sprouts underground factory, with mung beans, soybeans to cultivate bean sprouts, with 8 tons of water to add 1 jin (600 grams) sodium sulfite, dilute soak bean sprouts for about 5 minutes, so that bean sprouts bleaching, corrosion, preservation, more merchandize This factory daily production of fresh black bean sprouts 1500 kilograms, sales in major markets and tepanyaki The dining room. The relevant companies have been transferred to the legal office.
In addition, a pig slaughterhouse was seized in Pingtung County on Tuesday. Two suspected owners bought dead pigs to slaughter and sell under the cover of a legal electricity slaughterhouse license. The meat may have gone to freezing factories or traditional markets.
Tainan District Prosecutors' Office on Wednesday charged Lu Qingxie and his wife, who run Tainan Beihai Oil Xiedqing Company, with fraud and violating food safety regulations for mixing feed oil into lard for sale.
Industrial gypsum point tofu harm how much
In Chengdu, many tofu workshops are used to making tofu with plaster. However, gypsum is chemically made of hydrated calcium sulfate, which is slightly sweet when dissolved in water, and is a harmful substance to humans. When we judge whether gypsum can be eaten, we need to look at its calcium sulfate content, and there are strict health standards for consumption of gypsum. According to the Sanitary Requirements of Soybean Food Factories, gypsum as a food additive requires that the content of arsenic should not exceed 0.5 mg per gram and the content of lead should not exceed 1 mg per gram. The dark red industrial gypsum used by those crooked tofu workshops has excessive arsenic and lead content and is extremely toxic. Long-term consumption will cause chronic poisoning and endanger health.
Professor Zhang of West China University of Medical Science: The harm of industrial gypsum is not in itself, but it contains a variety of harmful impurities, especially arsenic, lead and other components are extremely harmful to human body. Arsenic builds up in the human body to levels that can lead to skin and lung cancer, skin ulcers and perforated nasal septum are more common, and the industrial gypsum used at Crooked Tofu's workshop contains dangerously high levels of arsenic.
How to tell the difference between marinated tofu and industrial gypsum tofu
1. Look: Take a piece of tofu and observe it directly under the scattered light. Traditional tofu is uniform milky white or light yellow, slightly glossy; Tofu made of industrial gypsum is much whiter and less glossy than traditional tofu because of the addition of white pigment. There may also be water lines, bubble fine particles, etc.
2. Touch: The traditional tofu can feel certain elasticity when pressed by hand, and the tofu made of industrial gypsum with moderate hardness and softness will be rough on the cut side, not delicate in texture, poor in elasticity, and no white liquid tofu will flow out.
3. Smell: directly smell the smell at room temperature. Traditional bean curd is made of soybean as raw material, with soybean flavor; Tofu made with industrial gypsum, on the other hand, has a mild odor, even a chemical smell.
